The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-13
WEST AND SOuTH,

THE waters of the Ouachita river had
risen on the 9th and flooded portions of
Clark County, Ark, the rice fields being
fifteen feet under water. People were
moving to the heights.
A LANDSLIDE reported at Cliff Cave,
Mo-, on the 9th buried six cars and the
locomotive of freight train. Two men
were killed, and trains were delayed
twenty-four hours.
THE st. Louis Supplies Company, which
had done business at st. Louis for twenty
years, made an assignment on the 9th
with total liabilities of $4,000.
A BLIND man named Gaines was sem
fenced at Tiffin, o., on the 9th to life i'm
prisonment for murder This was said to
be the first case in history where a totally
blind man had been convicted of murder.
JOSEPH COMPTON, member of the Ala
bama Legislature and a man who had of
kate years led an exemplary life, was rec
ognized on the 9th to be an escaped con-
vict from the North Carolina penitentiary,
where he was sentenced in 1874 for twenty
four years for murder. He has fled from
his home in Alabama to avoid arrest
THREE sheep-herders Of the Albuquerque
IN. M. district were frightened to death
by the recent earthquake shocks there.
AT Warren, ILL.,, the post-office building
and four business houses were burned on
the 9th. The losses were heavy.
WHILE oiling the machinery on the 9th
Griffith Phillips, aged thirty years, was
drawn into an ore-crusher in Youngs-
town CO., mill and cut in halves, his head
and shoulders being severed from the
body
The number OF games won by the sew
eral base ball clubs in the National League
for the week ended on the 18th was as fol-
lows: Detroit, Z; Boston, 6; New York, 5;
Pittsburgh, A; Philadelphia, 4; Indianapo-
lis, 2; Chicago, L; Washington, l.
AT Floyd, La, Richard Goodwin and
Grace Blanton, both colored, were lynched
on the 9TH for incendiarism. This was the
first lynching Of woman that ever took
place in that section of the State.
ABOUT twenty miles from Atlanta, Ga,
the remains of mastodon of the largest
size were discovered on the 18th.
THE judges in the case of Paul Grottkau,
the leader of the Milwaukee Anarchists,
sentenced him to one years Imprisonment
at hard labor for melting sedition.
IN court at Henderson, KY, on the 7th
Callie Rucker confessed to murder, for
which James McElroy was under sentence
to be hanged.
DURING the week ended on the 18th five
men and one woman committed suicide in
Cincinnati
JEFFERSON COUNTY Qnd) farmer
claimed on the 9TH to have discovered gold
and other minerals and was seeking to
patent the land.
Mrs. A. DOUGLAS, of Omaha, was 1Ol
years of age on the Sth.
JOHN FRoMER, of Greensburg, Ind, was
fatally shot by his wife on the 7th because
of his refusal to return and live with her.
He left her because of her aversion to his
children by former wife.
By the collapse of the railing on the
wharf fifty colored persons who had
gathered on the Sth at New Orleans to
witness an immersion We're precipitated
into the river and eleven were drowned.
The Detroit (Mich.) stove foundries
shut down on the 18th, throwing 1850 men
out of employment
In the Northwest Territories the past
winter is declared to have been the most